One Hears Quotes

52 quotes by 47 authors

• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief… — John Cheever
• In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard
• I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything… — Tim Winton
• If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. — Oscar Wilde
• When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of… — E.W. Jackson
• The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers)… — Henry Rollins
• The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to… — Richard Holbrooke
• There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams
• The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary.… — Iannis Xenakis
• Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in… — Albert J. Nock
• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only… — Eberhard Weber
• The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of… — Chris Ware
• Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no… — Maurice Druon
• An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. — Mahatma Gandhi
• The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates… — J C Ryle
• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth. — Gaston Bachelard
• The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. — Mahatma Gandhi
• Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
• In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom

Who Wrote These One Hears Quotes

47 authors contributed a total of 52 One Hears Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 One Hears Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
• 2 One Hears Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
• 2 One Hears Quotes by John Cheever
• 1 One Hears Quote by Maurice Druon
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• 1 One Hears Quote by MacKenzie Cheesman
• 1 One Hears Quote by J C Ryle
• 1 One Hears Quote by Anne Michaels
• 1 One Hears Quote by Harold Bloom
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• 1 One Hears Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick
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• 1 One Hears Quote by Isabel Paterson
• 1 One Hears Quote by Steven Weinberg
• 1 One Hears Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 One Hears Quote by Ray Bradbury
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• 1 One Hears Quote by Franz Kafka
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